Jason's Jive May 2026

Are you looking for something unique to do while in the Caribbean? St. Kitts and Nevis offer something that very few destinations can provide. Swim from one island to the other—no passport needed, no security check—just a fit version of yourself, a good vibe, and the determination to add this activity to your bucket list.

For the last 25 years, the annual swim event from the Caribbean island of Nevis to St. Kitts has grown. It is now very popular, and people travel from all over the world to take on this challenge. What started as a small event 25 years ago has grown into something big—and it is still growing. This year, almost 500 people from around the world converged on the small island (population 10,000) to take part in this fun event.

I encourage you to read up on this twin-island federation, which is easily accessible on American Airlines, Delta, United, and British Airways, among many others. The closest point between the two islands is a two-mile channel. Visit the website www.nevistostkittscrosschannelswim.com to see photos and read more about it. It is safe, and outside of the event, you can tour both islands or play golf on the only course that offers views of both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Let me share another site with you, and then the story will appear below: www.lagostotheworld.africa.

A friend of mine—a former childhood neighbor and big brother, Erik Uzoma Nwagwu—is about to embark on a drive around the world in a modified BMW. He lost his mother and only sister to cancer. His father is a retired university professor and global authority on cell molecular biology, Professor Mark Nwagwu. Let me share Erik’s story with you:

“Hope Has a Plan. There is a man sitting at a roadside fuel stop between Cotonou (Republic of Benin) and Lomé (Togo) right now. He is probably in his fifties. He has never had a prostate cancer screening. He has never received a health awareness message of any kind. He doesn't know his PSA levels. He doesn't know his risk. He doesn't know that African men are statistically among the most vulnerable to prostate cancer on the planet.

He is not hard to find. He is simply never visited. Most health campaigns designed for West Africa are designed for cities—for clinics—for people who already know to go looking. The man at the fuel stop between Cotonou and Lomé—and the thousands like him along the corridor from Nigeria through the Benin Republic, Togo, and into Ghana—exist completely outside the reach of formal health infrastructure.

In May 2026, I am driving through his community. Lagos to the World is a solo overland circumnavigation of the globe, departing Nigeria in May 2026. But before it becomes a global story, it is a West African one, hitting all the countries en route to Senegal. At every significant stop along the corridor—border towns, fuel stops, roadside communities—we will conduct free prostate cancer screenings and men’s health activations for the men these campaigns never reach.

Not because there is a clinic nearby, but because we are driving through. This is the gap. This is what we are filling. And this is why I am asking Nigerian and West African corporates to look at this not as a sponsorship, but as a program that moves.

My mother died of cancer. My sister died of cancer. I know what it means to lose someone to a disease that early detection could have caught and treated. The man at the fuel stop between Cotonou and Lomé deserves to know too.”

A BMW enthusiast, Erik will be using a 2008 BMW E60 535i, which he has modified himself for the journey. His journey will be flagged off in May from the home of the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, in Abeokuta.

For more details, he can be reached at erik@lagostotheworld.africa.

That’s the Jive!